The Testimony of the Comforter

The Comforter will teach us all things, and bring to remembrance the things that Christ said. The Comforter will, as it were, take His place when Christ ascends to glory, and continue to teach and to bring to mind the things that Jesus had told them during His ministry.

Christ warned us, that the world will hate us, because it hated Him first. That's because Christ chose us out of the world.

Christ then introduces the answer to the world's derision and hatred and violence against the Lord's people: it is the Comforter!

The Comforter is the Spirit of Truth, Who answers powerfully against the lies of this wicked world.

Christ makes it clear that the Comforter testifies to the truth about Christ. He refutes the slanders against Jesus by the world. He convicts the world of sin against God and His Christ. Those who hate God and His Son cannot escape the rebuke of the Holy Ghost's testimony. They know that they have done wrong.

But far better, the Comforter testifies to Christ's people the glorious things about our Savior!

Christ contrasts the hatred and slander and persecution of His people by the wicked, with the comfort given us by the Comforter. The Comforter speaks to us the truth about our God, about our Lord Jesus.

Christ puts great weight upon this work of the Holy Ghost for us, and for the cause of Christ in us.

But Christ states that His apostles would also testify of Him, because they were with Him and had seen and heard Him. The Savior had previously explained that it is the Comforter Who will remind the apostles of the things that Christ said and did, so that their testimony will also be accurate and truthful. Their testimony is preserved in God's Word!